Date: May 5, 2015

What is the archive of the nineteenth-century history of reading? And what will be its content and contours in the wake of wide-scale digitization? To address these questions, this talk looks in two directions: first, at the evidence of use in individual nineteenth-century books and, second, at the changing nature of academic research libraries after Google. Out of copyright, non-rare, and often fragile due to poor paper quality, nineteenth-century printed books are both richly served and particularly imperiled in the new media ecosystem. As scenes of evidence, they are at once exposed and occluded by the digitization of our library collections. Co-sponsored by NYU Digital Humanities.

Date: May 4, 2015

The Humanities Ambassadors Club will host a career panel talk featuring an all-star line up of professionals from a variety of careers. Presenters will talk briefly about how their background in the Humanities has helped them be successful in their career. Following the panel talk, students will have an opportunity to form small groups and ask questions of speakers in a more intimate roundtable setting.

Date: April 8, 2015

Kristin Ross's new book Communal Luxury considers the political imaginary of the Paris Commune, viewed from the perspective of contemporary concerns: internationalism, the future of labor, the status of art, ecological theory and practice.

Greg Grandin
Professor of History, NYU

Andrew Ross
Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU

Kristin Ross
Professor of Comparative Literature, NYU

Joan Scott
Professor of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study

Massimiliano Tomba
Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Padova